1# This is a comment 2.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == something 3FOO=bar 4.endif 5 6#\ 7 Multiline comment 8 9BAR=# defined 10FOOBAR= # defined 11 12# This is an escaped comment \ 13that keeps going until the end of this line 14 15# Another escaped comment \ 16that \ 17goes \ 18on 19 20# This is NOT an escaped comment due to the double backslashes \\ 21all: hi foo bar 22 @echo comment testing done 23 24hi: 25 @echo comment testing start 26 27foo: 28 @echo this is $@ 29 30bar: 31 @echo This is how a comment looks: '# comment' 32